Current Events > Why did the term 'pig' get chosen to be the go-to police insult?

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Pigs:

- Smart
- Delicious
- Cute as babies
- Delicious as babies

Cops:

- None of those things
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Pigs literally roll around in their own shit

You know, like cops
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You've tasted baby human?
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how do you know cops arent delicious
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to be entirely fair, we don't know whether or not cops are delicious as babies
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I always figured it was a fat joke.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

You've tasted baby human?

I've licked a baby cop once
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They're dirty and repulsive just like pigs

Similarly, the use of the word pig for “policeman” goes back at least as far as 1785, when a writer of the time called a Bow Street police officer a “China Street pig.”

Couldn't actually find reasons why the insult came to be, just that it's been around for a fair while. Probably just an insult around pigs rolling around in their own filth and being fat/lazy I imagine.
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eston posted...

Pigs literally roll around in their own shit

You know, like cops

DonaldClinton posted...

They're dirty and repulsive just like pigs

Can always tell the people who have never dealt with pigs LOL.

If you thought the term pig arose in the 1960s, you're in for a surprise. The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force (see above.) Before that, the term "pig" had been used as early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked.

The usage was probably confined to the criminal classes until the 1960s, when it was taken up by protestors. False explanations for the term involve the gas masks worn by the riot police in that era, or the pigs in charge of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2209/why-are-the-police-called-cops-pigs-or-the-fuzz
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Pigs

-Eat their own shit and roll around in it
-Scientifically proven to be disgusting quality of meat
-fat
-pink

wheres the issue exactly?
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Pigs are super clean tho.
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something about donuts and coffee shops.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2a8x8g-ELI
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BLAKUboy posted...

If you thought the term pig arose in the 1960s, you're in for a surprise. The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force (see above.) Before that, the term "pig" had been used as early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked.

The usage was probably confined to the criminal classes until the 1960s, when it was taken up by protestors. False explanations for the term involve the gas masks worn by the riot police in that era, or the pigs in charge of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2209/why-are-the-police-called-cops-pigs-or-the-fuzz

I was going to guess that it probably came from Animal Farm
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